First Day--

Students should have two handouts.

One is a one-page list of Edward Tufte's Problems with PowerPoints?.

The other is a hardcopy of the Gettysburg address and the speech in a PowerPoint format.

Links to PowerPoints? for Tufte exercise.

Tufte's Cancer Survival PowerPoint http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000Jr&topic_id=1&topicGraphic%20of%20the%20Day:%20Cancer%20Survival%20Rates%20and%20Redesigns,%20including%20PowerPoint

Visual Rhetoric at Purdue (not found)--I emailed a copy to myself and one to Dr. Morgan.

The Gettyburg PowerPoint http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm

Matt Barton's wiki

http://www.mattbarton.net/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Fall+2006+ENGL+333+Schedule

Rhetoric of PowerPoint http://joe.english.purdue.edu/mentor/files/rhetofppt.swf

Second Day

In Groups-- Using the method of describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate we have studied this semester. Apply this method to a powerpoint using Tufte's criteria as a search model.